'230 TREATMENT OF DISEASES. 



mouth, and the legs are swollen. Fever is pre- 

 sent, and great weakness. The pulse varies, 

 being in some patients only fifty ; and in others, 

 ninety ; depending on the degree of fever. 



Treatment. — If the pulse is full or wiry, and 

 above fifty-live, and the membrane inside the 

 nostril red, bleed three quarts ; * and if the 

 dung is hard, give three-quarters of a pint of 

 linseed-oil, with a drachm of ginger in it. Clys- 

 ter with a gallon of warm water, and four 

 ounces of Epsom, or common salt. Insert a 

 seton in the chest, and also at the top of the 

 neck, and blister the throat. Foment the legs 

 with hot water, and keep the stall cool. The 

 following morning, if the pulse still continues 

 full and quick, and the membrane inside the 

 nostril is redder than usual, bleed again three 

 quarts; but no more purgative physic is to be 

 given. If a second bleeding is not required, — 

 or, if it IS, then, after twenty-four hours, give 

 three-quarters of an ounce of carbonate of am- 

 monia, and three-quarters of an ounce of nitrous 

 sether, twice a-day, at eight and four: also, two 

 drachms of nitre, one drachm and a half of 

 gentian, one drachm and a half of colombo- 

 root, and one drachm and a half of ginger, 



* See '* Bleeding,'" p. 85. 



